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Engineers and scientists can now generate RF and baseband signals with a new National Instruments RF vector signal generator and an arbitrary waveform generator with onboard signal processing.

Engineers and scientists can now generate RF and baseband signals with the new National Instruments PXI-5671 RF vector signal generator and the new NI PXI-5441 arbitrary waveform generator with onboard signal processing.

The PXI-5671 module is a 3-slot RF vector signal generator that delivers signal generation from 250 kHz to 2.7 GHz, 20 MHz of real-time bandwidth and up to 512 MB of memory.

An onboard quadrature digital upconverter extends waveform playback time and reduces the time required to compute and download waveform data by computing the waveform data using an onboard field programmable gate array (FPGA).

This functionality is good for engineers who require data streaming with rapid response time for software-defined radio (SDR) or faster download times for satellite radio applications. In addition, the NI PXI-5671 can generate custom and standard modulation formats including AM, FM, PM, ASK, FSK, MSK, GMSK, PSK, QPSK, PAM, and QAM.

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